Wise Quotes - Page 26

• A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

  E. B. White

  Men, Vines, Restless

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• Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping hand —a leg up —an answer

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Hands, Understanding

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• In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

  Robert Breault

  Reason, Ends, Inseparable

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• Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Beer, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done...Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Rights, Next Steps

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• The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Light, Morality

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.43

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• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Peace, War

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• Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

  Heinrich Heine

  Witty, Philosophical, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.235

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• You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

  Israel Zangwill

  Analogies, May, Want

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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• A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

  Michael Bassey

  Men, Hands, People

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• We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Age, Would Be

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.46, Fig

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• Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Decision, Body, May

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• The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.

  John Jortin

  Art, Passion, Skills

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• Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to interpret any vision till they have first enquired the time at which it befell; for, if it were early, and of the morning sleep, they then thought that they might make a good interpretation thereof... in that the soul was then fitted for divination, and disincumbered. But if in the first sleep, or near midnight, while the soul was as yet clouded and drowned in libations, they, being wise, refused to give any interpretation.

  Anna Kingsford

  Morning, Kings, Sleep

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• The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

  Aristotle

  Men, Tongue, Bitter

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2228, Princeton University Press

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• I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Pigs, Wings

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• The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Long, Ought

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.22

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• If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Answers, Rational

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• Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Fool, Giants

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1470, Delphi Classics

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• Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Coffee, People, Action

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• The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Coins, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Saying Nothing, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Power, Simple

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• We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

  Joseph Hall

  Wish, Firsts, Praying

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.65

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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